I'd like to add a further question, if it's not frowned upon.

Are there any that might be interested in folks who would start remotely (but willing to come out for bits of onsite time) and then relocate to NYC in a few months?

Plantly (Brooklyn) is hiring an engineer. We've nailed remote-working down to a science, and also have a great studio to hang/stay at when if you're around. Help us with our deployment stack, balance agility and security. We love Ruby & Python, mighty curious about Scala and Erlang.

http://plantly.com amit at plantly dot com

10gen, the company behind MongoDB (whom I work for) is hiring in NY:

http://www.10gen.com/jobs

Python, Java, C++, etc

NewsCred is hiring - we're looking for information retrieval engineers. So any experience (or even interest) in search, IR, solr, lucene, machine learning etc would be great. If not, willingness to learn.

We'd love on site, but would consider the remote option if the fit is great, and the remote location is near NYC.

Flurry's got an engineering team here in NYC and is always looking for good Java developers, especially if you've got experience with Hadoop / large-scale data processing.

We're hiring at Meetup. http://meetup.com/jobs